Two sisters, Zohre and Azar Kabiri face death by stoning
Iran Human Rights, February 5: The two Iranian sisters, who are convicted of adultry and whom Iran Human Rights reported about earlier this month, face death by stoning. According to our sources these sisters are Zohre and Azar Kabiri from Khadam Abad, around the city of Karaj and are 27 and 28 years old respectively. Each of them is mother of a child.
The supreme court upheld the death sentences against them, the Etemad newspaper Monday quoted their lawyer as saying. The two sisters were found guilty of adultery - a capital crime in Iran - after the husband of one of the pair presented video evidence showing them in the company of other men while he was away.
"Branch 23 of the supreme court has confirmed the stoning sentence," said their lawyer, Jabbar Solati. The two sisters had initially been tried for "illegal relations" and received 99 lashes according to the lawyer. However in a second trial they were convicted of "adultery."
The Iranian government signed a moratorium with the EU in December 2002, according to which Iran was supposed to stop the stoning punishmenst. But since then at least two people have been punished by stoning to death. "Mahboobeh" was stoned to death in the city of Mashad in May 2006, and Jafar Kiyani was stoned to death in a village outside Takestaan in July 2007.
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